Motherboard Madness and Mayhem

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Misery loves company, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Linux blogs. Case in point: Linux Planet’s Carla Schroder recently told a woeful tale about her attempt to upgrade the CPU on her ECS motherboard, and it has inspired a vast outpouring of sympathy from geeks far and wide. “My nice new Phenom X3 CPU worked beautifully at first,” Schroder wrote. “The whole system was more stable, and I could do things in Audacity that I couldn’t before, like 32/96 recording. But the good times did not last, and after a couple weeks of happiness it croaked.”

 

 

 

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